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Accounting for the purchase of a fixed asset is pretty straightforward. Table 3-10 shows how a fixed-asset purchase typically looks.

TABLE 3-10 Journal Entry 10: Recording Fixed-Asset Purchase

Account	Debit	Credit
Delivery truck	$12,000
Cash		$12,000

If you purchase a $12,000 delivery truck with cash, for example, the journal entry that you use to record this purchase debits “Delivery truck” for $12,000 and credits “Cash” for $12,000.

Within QuickBooks, this journal entry gets made when you write the check to pay for the purchase. The one thing that you absolutely must do is set up a fixed-asset account for the specific asset. In other words, you don’t want to debit a general catch-all fixed-asset account. If you buy a delivery truck, you set up a fixed-asset account for that specific delivery truck. If you buy a computer system, you set up a fixed-asset account for that particular computer system. In fact, the general rule is that any fixed asset that you buy individually or dispose of later individually needs its own asset account. The reason is that if you don’t have individual fixed-asset accounts, the job of calculating gains and losses on the disposal of the fixed asset turns into a Herculean task later.